What went wrong with Malaysia's national education system? | BREAKING DOWN THE ISSUES

The education system is now more fractured than ever, divided by race and religion, and the “haves” and the “have-nots”. The quality of teachers produced by the teacher training colleges is in question and the discriminatory nature is causing resentment, made worse by those in power who use the minority as scapegoats.

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[Dat_MrBlack]

i can agree with this, i remember this one time where the teacher just kept talking baout the exams from the start of the school till the end of year. And they always giving us like methods to succeeds. BUT!!.. we are only allowed to use... TO USE THEIR METHODS!!!. they failed me whole just because i didn't follow their methods and i freakin' hate it soo much

[cat]

Low salary standard attracts only low quality person to became treachers

[vincent]

Syed Siddiq's analysis is correct. The Chinese emphasize science, Maths, Commerce and English. They can get job easier in big cities like KL, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, and even San Francisco or Toronto.There is no alternative if you want the country to progress but unfortunately there are people who can influence the mind of the pupils to think that these subjects are the products of colonialism.

[schuan]

well said, but most malaysian are unable to understand this as they have poor English proficiency

[yiseng]

Yes at one time we used to be admired for our English proficiency and that was in the pre Merdeka era and in the early years of independence and right through the 1960s and 1970s.
When Tunku Abdul Rahman was our first PM we had arguably one of the best education system in the world.Then the English language was the medium of instruction from elementary to tertiary level.English was given priority and emphasis but that soon changed with the passing of the National Language Act in 1967.
The nationalists and especially those from Gapena, GPMS and other Malay NGOs were vehemtly against the English as the medium of instruction and that Malay should be the main medium of instruction.That's the beginning of the decline of the English language and the rot had set ini.Yes that was the biggest mistake we had made and is felt today

[silverianjannvs]

Malaysian national education systems is too islamic for non muslim...

[ooilkster]

Well said YB Saddiq. The national schools are more of religious schools: a lot of religious rituals.

[nat]

Lol… Malaysians seems to know where to go for the best schools!

[jeejabaiapraghavanpillai]

Stop talking about the rot in the system. Change it for the Malays while the elite rich Malays move money out of the country and make msia a third world country. Only the honest Malays can change this rot.

[TonyWhite-xc]

Dr M as Minister of Education dumbed down the education by throwing out English and having only BM.
A Malay student can get D and E but still go to university because of the quota system.
Students with A or A- not good enough to attend university.
As a result of this dumbing down Malay graduates only get employment in the government sector.
The better students graduate from overseas and are very employable on the private sector.

[Pgan]

Its very Simple- Lee Kuan Yew was a Top Science Graduate and Dr M was a Racist Indian Graduate, and while Singapore have Top Ministers, Malaysia have bottom Feeders, cantau PMs and Ministers. Why in Malaysia even SPM Exams must have pass in BM, Sejarah, and even Moral is an Exam Subject, and up to today even argue about BM and DLP Classes, Vernacular, Religious Schools. One Minister even injected Arabic Text, Jawi, Black Shoes..plays with BM and English and more stupidity on and on. With these hung around our your necks can Malaysia be advancing or regressing into Arabic & Alice Wonderland?

[KironManuelCards]

This is something that everyone needs now.

[johnnyloh]

Education failing issues is not new.has any past n present education ministers has the commitments n political will to relook into the systems, too much of politics interfering the systems.

[muhammaddanielganbinabdull]

Rich content, though. I hope the content creator will put out another content about what YB Saddiq brought up recently about, The Elective Subjects in local university curriculums.

[yusofahmad]

Please do not tie the national schools with religion. Those who want to study religion can go to KAFA. National school should focus more on (STEM) to make students competative in this challenging world. And one more thing its about time that the subject of 'Evolution' be thought in all schools.

[hbsgroup]

M'sia boleh as it is a Bolehland ...

[gilberthuat]

Malaysia Education system iz the worst system in the world.

[michaelcheong]

Our education standard has dropped since from 1973, after all subjects change and only one English book.Simple subject like history most student are lost and no need to talk about it there subjects.The level of standard is bad!

[tg]

The schools in peninsular are too islamic and religious. Follow Sarawak education system. Sarawak is implementing full DLP programme, recognizing UEC certfication, English and BM are recognised and used officially.

[yulianiali]

the video image is too poor, you need to fix it more